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The Trey Gowdy Podcast

BONUS: The Great Exception

The Trey Gowdy Podcast

FOX News Podcasts

Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary, News

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Join Trey Gowdy every Thursday for a bonus podcast episode where he shares his analysis and latest thoughts on the Supreme Court nomination process. This week, Trey dives into the way the United States Supreme Court has become a “cultural battleground." He discusses the lack of knowledge the public has of Supreme Court cases and decisions, and how changing of American attitudes has lead to more contentious confirmation processes. Follow Trey on Twitter: @TGowdySC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:01.7

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0:07.3

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0:10.2

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0:14.0

Fox. Do you ever wonder how the Supreme Court became such a cultural battleground?

0:39.7

If we ask most of our fellow citizens to name all current eight members of the Supreme Court, do you think they could?

0:47.0

If we ask them to cite significant Supreme Court opinions authored by the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, do you think most Americans

0:55.2

could?

0:56.2

And if they could tell us the result of those opinions or the conclusions reached, could

1:01.9

they tell us what analysis, which analysis she used to reach

1:07.3

those conclusions? In other words, what was her judicial philosophy? When you hear terms like judicial activism. judicial

1:14.1

philosophy. When you hear terms like judicial activism or judicial restraint, what do you think? When you hear

1:19.5

nominees described as textualist or originalist or minimalist. Do you believe you have a firm

1:26.8

grasp on what those terms mean? Supreme Court confirmation battles were not always like this.

1:35.0

For those of us old enough and bored enough to watch the Robert Bork confirmation hearings

1:41.0

and those that have followed since then, confirmation hearings hearings and it does make me wonder

1:44.6

confirmation hearings seem like just one more major thing to fight about.

1:49.0

But it wasn't always that way.

1:52.4

And it does make me wonder But it wasn't always that way.

1:53.0

And it does make me wonder what changed.

1:57.0

There were incredibly significant Supreme Court decisions long ago.

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